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Mindfulness training can help you
appreciate that there is more right
with you than wrong with you, helping you replace self-criticism and
fear with peace, happiness, acceptance, equanimity and compassion
for yourself and others. Mindfulness
can help you tap into the gratitude
that arises when you are fully alive,
one moment at a time, one day at
a time. Mindfulness can help you
learn to appreciate the simultaneous presence of pleasant emotions
alongside unpleasant emotions,
helping provide an internal, embodied feeling of wholeness and wellbeing even in the midst of pain and
suffering. Mindfulness can help you
identify your life’s priorities, clarify
your most important values and
help you begin living in accord with
your personal sense of your life’s
deepest meaning.
The amazing thing about mindfulness training is that these positive
transformational benefits can occur
even without completely eradicating the anxiety and depression that
initiated the mindfulness study and
practice in the first place. My students and patients have put it this
way: “I have my life back. I am in
control. My unpleasant emotions
are subsiding and my pleasant emotions are increasing. I am more fully
alive.”
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Research increasingly suggests
mindfulness is an important tool
in the management of the pain and
suffering caused by anxiety and
depression.
Resources
A mindfulness-based stress reduction
workbook for anxiety, Stahl, MeleoMeyer and Koerbel
Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan
for Finding Peace in a Frantic World,
Williams and Penman
About the Author
Dr. Patterson is past president of
the Kentucky Academy of Family
Physicians and is board certified
in family medicine and integrative
holistic medicine. He is on the family practice faculty at the University
of Kentucky College of Medicine
and the University of Louisville
School of Medicine, Saybrook
University’s College of Integrative
Medicine and Health Sciences (San
Francisco) and the Center for Mind
Body Medicine (Washington, D.C.).
He operates the Mind Body Studio
in Lexington, where he offers integrative medicine consultations. He
can be reached through his Web site
at www.mindbodystudio.org.
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cal anxiety or depression. MBSR
can also help manage physical and
emotional symptoms of clinically
significant anxiety and depression
because it is often integrated into
a regimen that includes psychological counseling and/or medication. Mindfulness-based cognitive
therapy (MBCT) is a more recent
combination of MBSR with cognitive behavior therapy. Although
initially developed to treat recurrent, relapsing depression, MBCT
also helps anxiety. In fact, most
treatments for either anxiety or
depression, whether counseling,
medication or psycho-educational
interventions, improve the symptoms of both conditions.
If you or a loved one has significant symptoms of anxiety or
depression, it is extremely important that you consult with your
primary care provider and discuss
treatment options. Moderate
and severe symptoms may well
need either or both counseling
and medication, at least initially.
Mild symptoms may respond to
lifestyle changes concerning sleep,
healthy nutrition, physical activity,
emotional awareness, substance
use and social relationships. Your
provider can refer you to a trusted
professional for specific training
in MBSR or MBCT. You may also
benefit from self-directed study,
such as the references cited below.
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